Google Adblocker off to a questionable start

1 point

8 years ago

Google maintained Chrome AdBlocker [0][1] (based on BetterAds Standards) went into effect today. The API [2] shows 1253 sites flagged at the time of this post.

539 Warnings 714 Failing

Ads Off for 539 entries, paused for 45 entries, and 669 entries are pending.

Among the failing sites:

http://techradar.com - Tech news site http://georgiadogs.com - College Sports Team http://fox43.com - TV Station in the US

With only 1253 entries and months of preparation, I'm really disappointed about these questionable choices. Kudos to Google for the easy to access JSON interface for viewing the list.

[0] https://blog.chromium.org/2018/02/how-chromes-ad-filtering-works.html

[1] https://gizmodo.com/google-s-big-ad-blocking-update-comes-to-chrome-tomorro-1822992036

[2] https://developers.google.com/ad-experience-report/v1/reference/rest/v1/violatingSites/list